I did not wear any makeup after my injury until I was about 19 or 20. My injury happened when I was 15. So when I began to start wearing makeup... my aides and nurses helped me. I have blue eyes so I have found that blue eyeliner on the top and bottom really brings out the blue in my eyes even more. And blue mascara.
After that, my ex-significant other fell into my primary caregiver role, He was actually applying it for me daily and doing a great job of it! Then... after we split up and I had to move into an assisted living place... I found that I could put the eyeliner pencil between my thumb and forefinger and, with a table mirror in front of me, I could make sure it was going on right. Same with the mascara. I just had to be very careful and take my time because I have absolutely no use of my fingers. Then, strangely enough, I got a 63-year-old male home health aide that did my hair perfectly with a curling iron and put in barrettes just perfectly but I remember still doing my own makeup... which was a first for me in a way. Because my dexterity is not like it was nine years ago... I have had to rely on my home health aides to do it for me. Some have been able to do it but my current home health aide is a plain Jane if there ever was one. She is afraid to put eyeliner on me but she puts on my mascara and eyeshadow. It is good enough for behind my glasses. LOL. But I would prefer to wear the eyeliner every day instead. And my current husband does not do makeup or curling hair. LOL. My niece introduced me to the Bare Minerals makeup for the face and I got some of it but will only put it on for taking photographs, etc. For the last couple of years I have been more lax about makeup. I want to but my situation does not allow it. We all have to make adjustments. That's it for me in a nutshell! Lori Michaelson Age - 43 C4/5 complete quad, 28 years post Tucson, AZ -------Original Message------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 3/17/2008 1:25:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] makeup Way to go Veranda, I'm sure I can learn a lot from you. We have to do what we did previously or we don't feel like the same person. That is the way I feel. It is wonderful to be able to do it for yourself, I do miss that but we just have to adapt to what we can do. Trying to train a male aide to do make out is not easy. They just don't get how to do the eye shadow. Dana It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms and advice on AOL Money & Finance.
